Foreign News: Skoda Sale

Big guns and shells bearing the well-known trade-mark Skoda, made in
Czechoslovakia will henceforth go only to those countries in
goosestep with Hitler. The French Schneider-Creusot interests, which
since 1920 have had a big interest in Skoda, Europe's second largest
munitions works, last week sold their shares to CzechoSlovak interests.
For thus recognizing "changed conditions" in eastern Europe, the
former French shareholders were paid $10,300,000.

With French directors out of the way, Skoda's new corps of German
military technicians can go more conveniently about their business of
arming Germany and her allies, a...